Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 -18
Contract jobs citing Azure 120 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.71% 6.20% 7.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.79% 20.00% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 17 27
10th Percentile £412 £185 £185
25th Percentile £463 £350 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.51% -23.18%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £460
90th Percentile £669 £543 £535
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -13.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 448 115 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.71% 31.00% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 94 78
10th Percentile £356 £185 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +16.28% -21.82%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +13 116 £510 +13.33% 25
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 6
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.00%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (58.33%) AWS
2 67 (55.83%) GCP
3 22 (18.33%) Entra ID
4 21 (17.50%) OpenShift
5 19 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.83%) GitHub
7 11 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.83%) SaaS
10 6 (5.00%) OneDrive
11 5 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.33%) ChatGPT
12 4 (3.33%) Serverless
13 3 (2.50%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) Firewall
2 8 (6.67%) DNS
3 7 (5.83%) SAN
4 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.33%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.33%) VPN
6 3 (2.50%) VSAN
7 2 (1.67%) NAS
7 2 (1.67%) Network Security
7 2 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.67%) SSL
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.83%) DHCP
8 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.83%) HTTP
8 1 (0.83%) Internet
8 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.83%) LAN
8 1 (0.83%) VLAN
8 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.67%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.17%) MySQL
5 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.33%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.50%) Big Data
6 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.83%) DB2
8 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.83%) Parquet
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.67%) GitLab
3 25 (20.83%) JIRA
4 14 (11.67%) Selenium
5 13 (10.83%) Cucumber
5 13 (10.83%) REST Assured
6 12 (10.00%) Postman
7 9 (7.50%) Git
8 5 (4.17%) Gatling
8 5 (4.17%) JMeter
8 5 (4.17%) TestRail
9 4 (3.33%) LoadRunner
9 4 (3.33%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (1.67%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.67%) JUnit
11 2 (1.67%) Maven
11 2 (1.67%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.67%) Finance
3 24 (20.00%) Banking
4 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Law
5 5 (4.17%) Legal
6 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (20.00%) Lead
2 18 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) Architect
4 10 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.17%) Consultant
7 5 (4.17%) Senior
7 5 (4.17%) Test Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.00%) OpenID
1 24 (20.00%) REST
2 22 (18.33%) LDAP
3 16 (13.33%) SailPoint
4 9 (7.50%) OAuth
5 8 (6.67%) SAML
6 7 (5.83%) Middleware
7 6 (5.00%) .NET
8 5 (4.17%) Kafka
8 5 (4.17%) Playwright
8 5 (4.17%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.33%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.33%) PySpark
10 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.50%) JSON
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.50%) RESTful
11 2 (1.67%) Node.js
11 2 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Cloud Native
1 17 (14.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.17%) FlexPod
6 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.33%) IoT
7 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.83%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.83%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.00%) Linux
2 9 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (6.67%) VMS
4 6 (5.00%) CoreOS
4 6 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (5.00%) Windows
5 4 (3.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.17%) DevOps
2 60 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (25.83%) Containerisation
4 23 (19.17%) Test Automation
5 22 (18.33%) Agile
5 22 (18.33%) Migration
5 22 (18.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 19 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (15.83%) Observability
9 18 (15.00%) Analytics
9 18 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
9 18 (15.00%) ETL
10 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.50%) AI
11 15 (12.50%) API Testing
11 15 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) Python
2 29 (24.17%) Java
3 25 (20.83%) SQL
4 16 (13.33%) Bash
5 13 (10.83%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.00%) Go
6 6 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.17%) PHP
8 4 (3.33%) Cypher
8 4 (3.33%) Groovy
8 4 (3.33%) Scala
8 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.50%) Bicep
9 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.83%) C#
10 1 (0.83%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.17%) OCP
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.33%) Degree
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.83%) CCA
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.83%) NCDA
5 1 (0.83%) NCIE
5 1 (0.83%) RHCA
5 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.33%) SLA
2 4 (3.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (16.67%) Docker
2 15 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (10.83%) Active Directory
4 12 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (7.50%) vSphere
6 7 (5.83%) NFS
7 5 (4.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.67%) Ceph
9 2 (1.67%) KVM
9 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.83%) QEMU
10 1 (0.83%) SRDF
10 1 (0.83%) XenApp
10 1 (0.83%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.50%) Terraform
3 25 (20.83%) Ansible
4 11 (9.17%) Grafana
5 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.00%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.50%) Argo
7 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.83%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.83%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.83%) Puppet
9 1 (0.83%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 27 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.67%) Google
2 20 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 12 (10.00%) VMware
4 10 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 9 (7.50%) Oracle
6 8 (6.67%) Databricks
6 8 (6.67%) NetApp
6 8 (6.67%) Splunk
7 7 (5.83%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.33%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.50%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.50%) Aruba
9 3 (2.50%) Cisco
9 3 (2.50%) F5
9 3 (2.50%) IBM
9 3 (2.50%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.67%) EMC
10 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.67%) Veeam